Top 66 Evangeline Lilly Quotes

If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children’s material.

If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?

When I got the job on ‘Lost,’ I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine’s Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.

In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.

If you can’t sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

I really believe that a woman doesn’t reach her peak until her 40s.

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there’s nothing disappointing about it.

I love being outside – that’s where I’m the happiest.

Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien’s torchbearer on screen.

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on.

I love to dance. Don’t get me started, because you will never get me to stop.

I was a massive Tolkien fan. ‘The Hobbit’ was… my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.

In every one of the ‘Squickerwonker’ books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they’ve taken a piece of me, and I can’t get that back. It’s soul-draining.

My partner doesn’t read. He’s not illiterate – he just chooses not to read – and I love reading. I’m obsessed with reading.

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.

I don’t like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and killer and has instincts and just thrives in dangerous circumstances – that’s really boring to me, and I don’t think it represents what most women feel inside.

The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn’t have the strength, I didn’t have the flexibility, I didn’t have the stamina, I didn’t have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.

I got the script for ‘Real Steel.’ I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately turned off. It’s not my thing. But I continued on, and by the time I got to the end of the script, I had chicken skin and tears in my eyes. I thought, ‘Man, we don’t make movies like this anymore.’

To put it simply – you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don’t buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

I’m a pretty skeptical person, and I’m a realistic person.

Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It’s all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.

I’m an actress, but I’m not stupid.

I actually find flying therapeutic.

‘Real Steel’ was this lovely little piece where I held a cup of coffee and talked to Hugh Jackman for three weeks. And that sounded kind of nice.

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it – so I would never say, ‘I’ll never act again.’ But it’s definitely not my priority.

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

I love getting older!

I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, ‘OK, I’ll try it and see what happens.’

‘The Squickerwonkers’ was the story I wrote when I was on ‘The Hobbit.’ And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord’s name in vain.

I’m from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.

I didn’t grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn’t watch TV. We didn’t have a lot of magazines around.

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I’ll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

I’m not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I’ve been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced.

The people on my mum’s side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad’s side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

I am a classy dame.

By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don’t want it as badly as some people want it.

I don’t want to just model. Anyone can do that. I’ve let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have.

When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just thought, ‘Well, if he can make up words, then I can make up words.’

‘The Hobbit’ didn’t include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

I’m the kind of person who, if I were living in another time, if I had to pick any time, I would probably be a pioneer. I just love the simplicity of what it means to work hard with your hands – to eat and survive.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on ‘Lost.’

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I’d miss wouldn’t be running water or electricity – it would be style… being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there’s the side of me that’s more polished.

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.

When I hear the words ‘Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,’ I think, ‘What. A. Dream.’ There are no negative connotations to it.

Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.

I think I’m not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, ‘You know, when I first met you…’ People initially think I’m a snob because I’m intensely private.

There’s nothing more frustrating than when fans use a nickname. That’s like people you don’t know using names from people that you’re intimate with. Like if my mom has a nickname and a fan finds it out and starts using it, that’s creepy.

I consider acting a day job – it’s not my dream; it’s not my be-all, end-all.

There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you’re a pawn in the system.

My son was three months old when I started filming ‘The Hobbit,’ and I was still breastfeeding.

I just like short hair on women; I think it’s cool.